skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i dont think people who wear jeans should be considered as undignified or unworthy of respect.

its kinda cruel that you think homeless people who have maybe less than jeans should be given no respect, because they dont have a suit
>But for that to cause real trouble, you'd need coordinated action that would require something like a state level actor.

luckily there isn't a state actor actively sabotaging all kinds of infrastructure in Europe right now with explicit interest to sabotage renewables
There are countries where prostitution is legal and commercial brothels accept mainstream payment methods.
How can I copy paste some stats from this website? When I try, it just changes
Find a book by explaining what happens in it
That’s a fair argument. A rebuttal would be that a) its value prop as a currency is low in developed countries (assuming you’re in one) and b) a money takes significant time to become a medium of exchange and theories believe it first needs to become an established store of value, so one could argue that by bitcoin becoming a SoV now it is on the path of potentially becoming a currency. ie basically it may take it 40 more years - is that failure?

But anyway. By failure I meant go to $0 (or close to it)
Too mainstream, regression to mean.
It doesn’t seem odd to me. I’m more suspicious of Google’s motives and am even more suspicious of companies like TikTok, Amazon, Xiaomi, and Facebook. There’s a privacy spectrum.
From someone who had to mentally let go once you started talking about planes crossing each other, thank you for such an amazingly detailed writeup. It's not everyday that you learn a new cool way to divide numbers!
technically no. theres only a camera feed on magnus, really. everyone is just watching the board. i know i was, for Rosen's games this weekend

hikaru was trying to get camera feed of his games to stream, and fide said no
AI-designed, monolithic aerospike engine successfully hot-fired
I think I just noticed a similar thing for search that I'm pretty sure was not there before IOS 18.

Going into Settings -> Search there's an option now for "Help Apple Improve Search", enabled by default.

>Help improve Search by allowing Apple to store the searches you enter into Safari(!!), Siri and Spotlight in a way that is not linked to you. Searches include lookups of general knowledge, and requests to do things like play music and get directions.

If it was there before then it was switched on again.
It's available since at least Yubikey 5.2 (~2020).

edit: Indeed, that's the firmware revision credential management was added, per this blog post: https://www.yubico.com/blog/whats-new-in-yubikey-firmware-5-...

I'm honestly very annoyed with Yubico that they just froze their product line-up circa 2018 and pretend the major changes in firmware (5.2, 5.7) don't matter at all and don't warrant a separate SKU.
Self Models of Loving Grace [video]
Online dating is about to  radically change
The EU hasn't threatened granting consumers "absolute control" over all software.
So superior that I did rarely see a lightning cable that didn't had its connector broken in one or two years maximum...
I think you missed that they were pointing out a typo, the original poster said '5 (fingers) per finger' not the intended '5 (fingers) per hand' (and before anyone points out that it should be digits, yes, I know, take that up with the original poster too).
that is the same thing as a DQ from the event
I was being facetious, of course I wouldn’t (though I rock the YMCA) :)
Falling house + condo prices along with loss of tech jobs in SF all relate to the higher interest rates (interest rates were basically rock bottom since the 2007 great recession recovery until the pandemic,then as a result of massive fiscal/monetary stimulus to fight the pandemic leading to run away inflation, the fed finally had to enact the first serious rate increases since mid 2000. No surprise that suddenly startups ran out of investor cash (job losses) and that mortgages became too expensive for the average buyer (lower demand = lower housing prices).
>No one wants to steal any content, they view content elsewhere due to ludicrous rights management systems on digital video content.

Actually I think they do. The median salary is quite low in the UK so there are a lot of people for whom piracy is an economic act rather than being about DRM.
this is yet another step in the frog-cooking approach to identity management.

from a weak passport owner's perspective, our biometrics are already taken away whenever you apply for a visa. as shown in the article, for domestic purposes too this is done, so this is just a matter of convenience to nudge everyone to give it up now.

with the above fallacy, one would be ok to adopt this system for international travel. but i wonder if adopting this system in all air travel would be the additional notch up in the temperature of digital privacy.
I understand the enthusiasm but from the business perspective it does not matter. Many businesses would fail if they go too deep on this. Their only audience would be people who are experts in the area. Other people are confused and disappointed since things are not working as they expect.

On Apple's scale, most people care about the things they can do, not about how it happens. For that reason, default matters when the option is only about the internal process pipeline and privacy.

As a result, it is enough to showcase that in case some expert investigates the matter, they show that privacy is considered in a reasonable level.

Maybe some day in the future these things are common knowledge, but I fear that the knowledge gap just increases.
If you don't feel a responsibility for inflicting pain on other people, that's on you. I'm not a sociopath.
Is Our Hot Tub Thermal Cover Worth the Cost?
Well, those companies can‘t have it that bad if they rather wade through 1000‘s of fake/ai/mismatched CVs and other slop themselves.

The costs will diffuse through a mix of incompetent inhouse HR and already overworked seniors and leads that now need to waste time on hiring.
Is democratic society the hill to die on? Sources?
ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
There are auto-landing systems now.

There was a video of a layman in a pilot seat (in a professional simulator) guided over radio landing plane with just few simple actions.

Here, found it - https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1dhi0...
I think the word definition we use doesn’t matter. A currency can be subject to speculative swings too.

Your reasoning doesn’t sound correct to me - it reasons by analogy. Yes stocks are subject to swings in value and some have collapsed. But gold is subject to swings in value too and hasn’t collapsed.

There is one very key difference between stocks and monetary assets like gold and bitcoin.

The former have an underlying revenue stream you’re buying with each share, and that puts both a floor and a ceiling on their value. (You’re unlikely to buy a stock at 1000x revenue)

The latter have no underlying stream and are valued purely based off each humans read on how widely accepted and how widely desired the monetary assets is. This means these assets have no ceiling until every human on the planet adopts them. Gold may go to $10,000/oz tomorrow, some people will feel it’s overvalued temporarily, but in due time it’ll become the new normal price. Of course, this also means these assets have no floor - they could go to literal zero.

But it’s hard to do, because you somehow need to change the mind of every individual person to believe that the asset has no value. This is impossible to do instantly and more probably to happen on a prolonged period of some negative feedback cycle
I just ordered the book.

This thread though really sums up this site. 100 comments about an article no one read about a book no one read.

Everyone is just so obsessed with their own political bullshit.

It is just so boring.
A few of many related past discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41474080

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17629436

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467379

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29807454

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27661637
> Other things I remember from that time was that passwords were only 8 characters long and case insensitive. My guess is z/OS is secure only by its obscurity. Though maybe this was just our installation. No idea until today.

Everybody nowadays uses a security add-on product with z/OS - most commonly IBM’s RACF, although some people use Broadcom (formerly CA)’s ACF2 or TopSecret instead. RACF allows a user to have either a “password” or a “pass phrase” or both or neither. For legacy reasons, a “password” indeed can be max 8 characters case-insensitive, but a “pass phrase” can be up to 100 characters and case-sensitive. And it also supports non-password based authentication mechanisms, including client certificates, smart cards, multi-factor auth, passtickets… some of that stuff is relatively new, but it isn’t all new. The bigger problem is you can offer all these more modern security features, but you can’t force customers to adopt them, especially when that adoption isn’t free (putting aside additional licensing costs for some of these features, there is also the person-time to configure it, test it, roll it out, etc)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524568

If you want to donate to the legal effort, the CCC has started a legal fund: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
Voctoweb – the front end and back end software behind media.ccc.de
> Want a mechanical keyboard but don't know where to start?

Not really. I enjoy membrane keyboards and want everything as silent as possible. Yet I want a hackable controller firmware and it seems these are only available with mechanical keyboards.
Or not. If the rates stay where there are or do not drop drastically there is lot sooner pressure to actually show profits. 2010s were very special economic environment.
I agree.

I think by that time, if the network effect has grown further and more parties have invested large money in it - they’ll just find a way to fix that.

For example, they may move to proof of stake.

It would ruin the decentralisation imo, but it doesn’t matter because it would save their value (money) and that’s what every participant will want first and foremost

It goes to show that because it’s software that holds money, when push comes to shove, people will just agree on a new version to save their money
The Drop keyboards merely have two upstream ports, so you can select to have the cable on the left or on the right.

There is no hub. If it was passthrough, the cable would be fixed (or use a non-standard connector), with two USB plugs at the host end: one for the keyboard and one for the passthrough. Some older gaming keyboards have such passthrough for USB ... and audio jacks!
Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis
> What gives McD the right to make such a decision unilaterally

This cannot be a serious question.
> Airlines decided it would be cheaper to cut that position and here we are.

It's not that easy tbh - the advent of digital monitoring systems, fly-by-wire and glass cockpits plainly eliminated the need for it.

On the other hand EASA is pushing for research into single-pilot operations [1]... now that is nuts.

[1] https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/research-projects/emco-sipo-ex...
I'm confirming. Often, when you run a script on more than just your own computer, bash is located in unexpected places.

For me, for example: `/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash`

In such cases, scripts containing the absolute path to bash in shebang do not run correctly.
It's just hypocrisy. I don't know how people can defend Apple as a privacy company when they phone home more than their Google counterparts.

People will say that at least Apple don't have a vested interest in their data since they are not an advertising company like Google or Meta. But Apple collects an absurd amount of data, it is phoning home every second. Some Apple traffic is hard-coded to go through VPNs.

Apple has already experimented with ads in Maps. Shareholders demand infinite growth, so it is only a matter of time before Apple dives into ads themselves.

The only valid point is that Apple does protect your privacy – only towards other companies.

I switched to Apple around 3 years ago because I don't like having my data coupled to Google. But I am regretting my decision, I will probably switch back to Android + Linux instead of IOS + Mac at this rate.
Apple themselves have already used it in the past (Caller ID)
It has happened before due to another higher priority warning suppressing the "too low, gear" warning, so if there's a lot going on already including other warnings, it's not inconceivable that it was overlooked and the plane didn't issue a warning depending on the circumstances.
Would it be reasonable to increase the length of the runway (or longer non-blocking area) based on these incidents, even if they are extremely rare.
> Last time I saw a company whose only European office was in Belgrade

Obviously this is done to hire local workers. In general, and especially in Europe, most people are not interested in moving away from their home country if they can avoid it, even if it means a vastly reduced earning and career advancement potential. Serbia in particular has lots of engineers with a phenomenal quality to cost ratio.
And of course you've reported every single crash you've encountered via email or support portal?

Normal people don't email support with crash logs, they just grumble about it to their coworkers and don't help fix the problem. You can't fix a problem you don't know about.
*MoNA, Museum of Old and New Art
I wouldn't even be sure about libraries... Books or whatever you are storing have to come from somewhere. And you have to regularly enough get new items in. And if these are polluted by AI generated content in various ways... Being able to pick real things from fake is nearly impossible outside very specialised areas where you have gone to primary sources. And even then just look at science. Already buckling with various issues.
National ID cards are evil. They are not a thing in my country and there would be very very strong opposition if they were seriously proposed (including riots, like when vaccine mandates were imposed on a subset of the population a few years ago). The passport is the only thing remotely close to a national ID, and a good proportion of the population do not have one. Standardizing a national tracking ID so foreign powers can know everything about you and sell it to further enrich their oligarchs? Not a chance.
There is a guy who is modding his Magic Keyboard 2 with Touch ID into a mechanical keyboard, with preserved touch ID functionality: <https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=120964.0>
I've seen it first-hand. The old lugged and bonded Trek frames are much more resistant to this than welded frames, because that construction method minimises the stress concentrations that initiate macro cracks. E-bikes are probably more vulnerable, partly because the structure is compromised to allow for battery installation and wiring, but mainly because there's a bunch of extra torque going through the chainstays.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/frame_fatigue_test.htm

An aluminium frame used in all weathers is vulnerable to galvanic corrosion. Aluminium is less noble than steel, so steel fasteners will rot out aluminium threads. In a perfect world this would be prevented by a suitable assembly grease, but a delivery bike being used through winter in London or New York is about as far from a perfect world as you could imagine. There's salt on the roads, the bike never gets a chance to fully dry out, so any amount of aluminium-to-steel contact is going to lead to very rapid corrosion.
Google internal mail from tech search lead to ad lead [pdf]
Remember, not all Pyrex uses borosilicate glass anymore.
>I don’t think its reasonable to expect most of it to command the price that it needs to be for the makers to make money off it.

Would it be that much though? Consider an artist with 20k unique regular listeners, which is successful territory but nowhere near big. If albums cost 3-5 bucks, an artist could make a good individual living releasing albums every 8 months or so, which is plenty of time to make em. Songs could then be maybe 30-50 cents. We’re never going back to such a model, but it wouldn’t be that expensive to fund artists.
Addition: At least last year, they would often reupload videos with more languages later on. So if the talk you are interested in is not available in a language you speak, check back later.
Dragon Sector FTW. Trzymam kciuki!
veritasium video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0I

Essentially, when this gets commercialized we'll be able to make room-temperature qubits using two grapes and a diamond in a microwave oven.

This opens up a whole new field of "grapetronics" for scalable quantum computing hardware.
The UK job market is pretty screwy.

I got made redundant back in March, applied for a bunch of stuff I matched profile for and maybe got 5-6 interviews off the back of it.

The worst was the agency that lined me up for a contract role, got me to fill out all the paperwork only for the job to fall through because the client apparently never got budget signed off for the position.
> they are wasting time and money with the copyright and other bullshit

One more reason copyright deserves to die.
Tutorial shows how to run Docker natively on Android, without VMs and chroot
> but an aluminium frame will inevitably succumb to fatigue cracking

I'm no expert, but couldn't you just weld it up then? That's a fairly simple operation that shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and cost maybe $30.
50 is not cheap. There are a lot of phones not worth a $50 repair. They work just fine if it wasn't that they need to be charged often. Disposal is also a problem. They have their own bin here.
Reminds me of the peril-sensitive glasses in H2GT2G: "At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."
It’s very simple to take an absolutist moralistic stance like this if the people hit by those consequences are thousands of miles away.
nice writeup, but i feel that for most people, the software side of training models should be more interesting and accessible.

for one, "full" gpu utilization, one or many, remains an open topic in training workflows. spending efforts towards that, while renting from cloud, is a more accessible and fruitful to me than to finetune for marginal improvements.

this course was a nice source of inspiration - https://efficientml.ai/ - and i highly recommend looking into this to see what to do next with whatever hardware you have to work with.
The XZ utils supply chain attack also used this to sneakily disable Linux Landlock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39874404
People here are more fond of the obedience side of things, it seems.
This talk was one of the best so far, highly recommended.
avherald: https://avherald.com/h?article=52225189&opt=0
if you can't get it to work with two whole grapes touching you can also try to cut a grape almost in half, leave a tiny bit of the skin connected and place it folded open with the cut facing up.
Pennsylvania Railroad – Steam and Electric Years, 1936–1952 [video]
The primary impression that most of the contemporary world has of FIDE is probably one of corruption and power games that are completely detached from the game of chess.

There are people who think that it can be reformed and there are people who don't think that FIDE can improve, but certainly no one argues that its past proves its commitment to professionalism.

I'd say you'd be hard-pressed to find a worse performing global sport federation.
Have a look at this analysis by @minimaxir about offering tips to LLMs: https://minimaxir.com/2024/02/chatgpt-tips-analysis/
Super cool to see railroad footage this old. Archived original site: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204011305/http://diwks.com/...

“This digitally edited program presents black and white films of Theo (Ted) Gay taken in the '30's, '40's, and early '50's along the Pennsylvania Railroad. We see scenes once taken for granted; GG-1's, P5A's, M-1's, K-4's, L-1's. Even the unusual; an E-3 in steam, a Sperry Rail car, mail being picked up on-the-fly. A hotbox and the consequences of a hotbox. Taken in the area around New York City and Philadelphia, the films show us why the PRR was sometimes called the "The Big Red Subway". The company had the largest fleet of passenger cars in the world at the time, and it ran the trains to put them to use.

In this program, you get the chance to visit the familiar spots; the platforms at Penn Station in New York; Newark; Princeton Junction; 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. You get to see things that can't be seen anymore; the street level view of old Penn Station; Broad Street Station (Including its demolition); freight on the P&T; "Cutoff" at Whitford, Pennsylvania; and frequent and intense freight action behind steam and electric power at Downingtown and Thorndale, Pennsylvania. One treat shown here is the fleet of oil trains dispatched during the early years of World War II, utilizing nearly every tank car the nation could find. Approximately 45 minutes, color, B&W;, graphics, narration, prototype sound. RA-3”
> Can be anything ...

Watching Trump defiantly raise his fist in the air right after his assassination attempt.
Falling demand leaves Mexico with a 500M-litre tequila lake
Polish person here, as far as I understand, our SLAPP protections are basically nonexistent, which is why this is allowed to happen.

In the US, a lawsuit like this would never fly.
Interesting. My description:

> First contact with aliens who live in the water and do abstract maths. They can become crystalline to speed up their thinking processes.

It didn't produce the book I was thinking of, but it did turn up one by the same author, but with a totally different plot.

So ... hmm.
https://archive.is/9BheS
Maps that show time instead of space [video]
It's literally guaranteed. What do you mean?
The revenue is in one more chain locking the user into the ecosystem. Hard to quantify.
I mostly agree.

Probably Stallman would object that Lua doesn't have read (apart from eval) and print.

As for performance, LuaJIT performance is better than any Common Lisp or Elisp, and dramatically better than the first 35 years of Elisp, before native-code compilation.
Sticky Tunes: How Do People React to Involuntary Musical Imagery? (2014)
As someone who went to CCC more than once, it's a very international conference. Everything official related to the conference is in English (or bilingual). Some talks are in German, but a large majority is in English (at least this is how I remember it). Anyway the point is that the organisers care about non- german speakers, so it's not an unreasonable request.
It has that in common with Lisp!
Interesting cyberpunk choices - I certainly hadn't heard of 964 Pinocchio and it's not easy to get hold of by the look of things. Also had never heard of "New Rose Hotel" which is surprising as it has A-list actors in it.
It’s not the first time Apple operationalized it, they did it for Caller ID awhile back.
In engineering we distinguish the "how" of verification from the "why" of validation; it looks like much comments disagreement in this post is about the premise of whether ANY outgoing data counts as a privacy consent issue. It's not a technical issue, it's a premises disagreement issue and that can be hard to explain to the other side.
Opti electrical are much more silent then membrane
If you do ever want to dive into the keeb firmware hacking world, you absolutely can build very silent mechanical keyboards.

Between linear switches, quiet mounting options, and even o-rings if you have a tendency to press keys harder, you can get them to being only slightly louder than a MacBook keyboard (or maybe not louder, just different sounding)